A small asteroid will join Earth's orbit around the sun for two months beginning Sunday, becoming a 'mini-moon.' ...
A powerful burst of X-rays from a nuclear explosion could be used to stop Armageddon just in the nick of time, a new ...
The Deep Space Network’s Goldstone Solar System Radar near Barstow, California, captured a series of radar images of the near ...
A series of radar images taken by Nasa has revealed that a large asteroid which zoomed past Earth last week was actually two ...
Eager to not meet a similar fate, the National Academy of Sciences has called for planetary defense to be a national priority ...
Humanity could use a nuclear bomb to deflect a massive, life-threatening asteroid hurtling towards Earth in the future, according to scientists who tested the theory in the laboratory by blasting ...
A new study sheds light on the birthplace of asteroid Ryugu, which is now believed to have formed near Jupiter.
A crater-rich dwarf planet named Ceres located in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter was long thought to be composed of a materials mixture not dominated by water ice.